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  Cubana de Aviación - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Cubana's Soviet-built aircraft began to suffer from old age, and the fact that spare parts for those planes were hard to find, and partly because of that it suffered a series of fatal accidents during the 1990s.
Cubana is expected to receive 2 Ilyushin Il-96-300 aircraft in 2005 to replace the aging Ilyushin 62s in their fleet.
Cubana is the only known major Latin American airline to use Russian built airplanes(in the days of Cold war Aeronica used the planes), and it is the only Latin American airline with an established route to Moscow.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Cubana_de_Aviacion   (1055 words)

  
 Cubana de Aviación biography .ms   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Cubana's Soviet-built planes began to suffer from old age, and the fact that spare parts for those planes were hard to find, and partly because of that it suffered a series of fatal accidents during the 1990s.
In 1983, Cubana was prohibited for two weeks from using United States air-space to operate their flights to Canada, after two of their jets overflew close to American military facilities during two consecutive days.
Cubana is the only known major Latin American airline to have used Russian built airplanes, and it is the only Latin American airline with an established route to Moscow.
cubana.biography.ms   (620 words)

  
 Cubana Flight 455 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Cubana Flight 455 was a Cubana de Aviación Douglas DC-8 departing from Barbados via Trinidad to Cuba.
Cubana Flight 455 was a Douglas DC-8 departing from Barbados to Cuba.
Cubana de Aviación blamed the attacks on a terrorist organization run by CIA-linked Cuban exile Luis Posada Carriles.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Cubana_Flight_455   (1247 words)

  
 cuba heritage .com - Cubana, the Cuban Airline   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Cubana de Aviacion was founded on October 8, 1929.
In 1935 the Lockheed Electra aircraft was incorporated to the fleet, allowing Cubana to extend its itineraries to nearly the whole island, and thus raising the prestige of the company.
In this same year, Cubana added to its fleet the best airplane yet constructed, the legendary Douglas DC-3, whose acquisition was a milestone in the airline´s development.
www.cubaheritage.com /articles.asp?cID=&sID=&ssID=&artID=700   (812 words)

  
 ©2003 Cubana de Aviación S.A.
Cubana de Aviacion has the right to change, update or delete the information of this web site whenever it is necessary and without a previous notification.
Cubana de Aviacion is not responsible for and does not guarantee that the access to this website is interrupted or with errors.
Cubana de Aviacion has the right to drop the user’s information if he did not have access to the web site in the last six months or if he did not ask for a service in the last twenty months.
www.cubana.cu /html/ingles/copyrightCubana_e.html   (474 words)

  
 Cubana is changing its fleet - DR1 Forums
Cubana de Aviacion is changing its fleet now, airline replaced all Tupolev 154 by A320 and DC10-30s by brand new A330-200s.
Cubana signed an agreement for codesharin with Copa and Air Jamaica, now they don't fly to MBJ, KIN and PTY but their sell CM an JM flights under CU designator.
Cubana's Airbus 330-200 is leased from, and maintained by, the Swedish airline Novair, with crew trained and licensed in Sweden.
www.dr1.com /forums/showthread.php?t=26175   (180 words)

  
 Cuban Aviation
February 1, Cubana suspends its flights to Moscow with Il-62M and in that route agrees a joint flight Cubana-Aeroflot with Il-96-300 of Aeroflot, in two weekly flights.
Were transported 810,000 passengers by Cubana and Aerocaribbean and 759,000 passengers of Aerotaxi and Aerogaviota, for a total of 1,569,000 passengers.
In the beginnings of the XXI century, Cubana de Aviation faces the demand of the new times to offer to its clients an efficient service in correspondence with the standard of the contemporary civil aviation.
www.geocities.com /urrib2000/Civ6-e.html   (1272 words)

  
 List of years in aviation - LearnThis.Info Enclyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
October 15, Pilâtre de Rozier and Marquis d'Arlandes rise into the air in a Montgolfière tethered to the ground in Paris.
November 21, in a flight lasting 25 minutes, de Rozier and d'Arlandes take the first untethered ride in a Montgolfière in Paris, the first human passengers carried in free flight by a hot-air balloon.
July 5, Belgian Vincent de Groof is killed in an accident as he tries to do a flight using flapping wings.
encyclopedia.learnthis.info /l/li/list_of_years_in_aviation.html   (7162 words)

  
 44 feared dead in Cuban air crash   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Cubana de Aviacion spokesmen said a Soviet-made Antonov 24 turboprop plane crashed into deep water two to three miles south of the eastern city of Santiago de Cuba about 9:55 p.m.
Cubana de Aviacion's fleet has suffered greatly since the collapse of communism in the Soviet Union, and visitors landing at Havana's Jose Marti Airport can see long rows of Soviet-made jetliners whose engines appear to have been cannibalized to keep others flying.
A Cubana jetliner on an inaugural flight to Puerto Plata, a resort on the northern coast of the Dominican Republic, slammed into a mountain in 1992, killing all 35 people aboard.
www.canfnet.org /archivos/z44deadaircrash.html   (457 words)

  
 2003-A-612 -- Exemption - Cubana de Aviacion S.A.
Cubana de Aviacion S.A. (hereinafter Cubana) has applied to the Canadian Transportation Agency (hereinafter the Agency) for the exemption set out in the title.
Cubana shall apply the fares and their associated rules as established by LACSA for the previously ticketed passengers; and,
Cubana shall apply to LACSA's previously ticketed passengers its own General Rules as filed and in effect with the Agency in its Tariff CTA(A) No. 9.
www.cta-otc.gc.ca /rulings-decisions/orders/2003/A/2003-A-612_e.html   (340 words)

  
 Cuban Aviation
Compañía Nacional Cubana de Aviación Curtiss, S.A. National Company Cubana of Aviation Curtiss, Inc.-, as a subsidiary of the North American Aviation Inc., part of the Curtiss aviation group.
Cubana it is shown as an efficient domestic company.
May 1, 1945 Cubana de Aviation inaugurates daily nocturnal flights in the route Havana-Camaguey with the DC-3.
www.geocities.com /urrib2000/Civ2-e.html   (951 words)

  
 havana flights .com - Cubana Airlines and Aircraft
Cubana de Aviacion and the Novair Airbus A330-200
Cubana Airlines's Airbus 330-200 is leased from, and maintained by, the Swedish airline Novair, with crew trained and licensed in Sweden.
For holiday makers, Cubana's 275-seat economy class offers a taste of the holiday to come with a hot lunch and free drinks plus a cold snack before touch down in Cuba.
www.havanaflights.com /cubana.shtml   (550 words)

  
 Cuba Solidarity Project : dirty war against cuba
At that very moment, the Cubana de Aviacion Fokker aircraft was located 25 to 30 kilometers south of Varadero, in Matanzas province, flying at an altitude of 9000 feet and at a speed of 400 kilometers per hour.
The Cubana pilot immediately reported to flight control on the release of unknown substances, in the form of a white or grayish mist, by the S2R airplane.
The pilot of the Cubana de Aviacion Fokker asserts on the basis of his visual observation and his previous experience as a pilot of fumigation airplanes, that the release made by the United States aircraft was not of smoke but of a substance.
cubaproject.freeservers.com /cuba_bio1.htm   (1199 words)

  
 Promotions   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Una tirada bimestral de 50,000 ejemplares convierte a Sol y Son en la revista cubana de mayor circulación internacional.
Dirigida a los lectores extranjeros interesados en viajar a Cuba, Sol y Son se distribuye en los vuelos y oficinas de Cubana de Aviación, entre las agencias de viajes vinculadas a Sol y Son Los Viajes en diversos países, y en la red de hotelería y servicios al turismo en Cuba.
Periodicidad: Bimestral Tiraje: 50,000 ejemplares Tipo de lector: Pasajeros a bordo de Cubana de Aviación Tipo de papel: Portada 170 grs.
www.cubaliteraria.com /revista/Sol_y_Son/promotions.asp   (261 words)

  
 The Militant - 5/26/97 -- Cuban Gov't Presents Facts Indicating Washington s Conducts Biological Warfare
At that very moment, Cubana de Aviación Fokker aircraft was located 25 to 30 kilometres south of Varadero, in Matanzas Province, flying at an altitude of 9,000 feet and at a speed of 400 kilometres per hour.
According to scheduled flights, objective radar control, and recordings of radio conversations between the airplanes and ground control, a fumigation aircraft Model SAR was flying south in the Girón corridor on a course perpendicular to the Cubana de Aviación flight.
The Cubana pilot immediately reported to flight control on the release of unknown substances, in the form of a white or greyish mist, by the SAR airplane.
www.themilitant.com /1997/6121/6121_20.html   (1284 words)

  
 Cuban airline rated unsafe   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Even before two crashes in less than one week killed 47 people, statistics showed that Compañia Cubana de Aviacion is one of the most unsafe airlines in the world.
Those crashes brought the number of Cubana disasters since 1970 to eight; one of them was the result of sabotage.
Cubana would not lead the unsafe list if the former Soviet Republics and China provided data on the number of flights their airlines operate.
www.fiu.edu /~fcf/unsafe99.html   (449 words)

  
 Cubana Airlines Information InsideAirports.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Cubana airlines also provides domestic service within Cuba to the following destinations, Ciudad de la Habana, Barcoa, Bayamo, Camaguey, Cayo Largo, Santiago De Cuba, Santa Clara, Varadero, and Las Tunas.
Cubana airlines is the flagship carrier of the nation of Cuba.
Miscellaneous: In order to comply with the United States trade embargo, Cubana airlines is not permitted to operate service to the United States from Cuba.
www.insideairports.com /airlines/caribbean/cubana.asp   (170 words)

  
 FROM CUBA / Flying On Cuban Airline Is Dicey Proposition / Jesús Zúñiga - Cuba News / Noticias - ...
According to the Civil Aeronautics Institute of Cuba, Cubana de Aviación has only had one accident and no fatalities in the last four-and-a-half years.
On July 11, 1997, a Cubana Antonov 24 crashed into the sea after takeoff from Santiago de Cuba on a flight to Havana.
On December 25, 1999, a Cubana Yak 42 on approach to Valencia, Venezuela on a flight from Havana struck the ground about 10 miles short of the airport.
www.cubanet.org /CNews/y00/ago00/14e4.htm   (448 words)

  
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Cubana began in October 1929 as Compania Nacional Cubana de Aviacion Curtiss.
In 1930 the first flight of the route Havana-Santiago de Cuba was established, that transports air mail with an Ford tri-motor that did scale in Santa Clara, Morón and Camaguey.
In May 1932 the airline was acquired by Pan American and the airline renamed Compania Nacional Cubana de Aviacion.
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 Airline History - Airlines by index   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
In May 1932 the airline was acqured by Pan American and the airline renamed Compania Nacional Cubana de Aviacion.
By 1945 the airline name had been shortened to Compania Cubana de Aviacion and first international flights were started with DC-3 aircraft to the USA (Miami).
After the war the fleet consisted of western aircraft including Bristol Britannias, Viscounts and Constellations but from 1959 when the Cuban government reorganised the airline as Empresa Consolidada Cubana de Aviacion the Western aircraft types were sold and Russian airliners were used.
airlines.afriqonline.com /airlines/179.htm   (283 words)

  
 Cuba
Cubana generally gets pretty bad recommendations domestically, but globally, is rated at the same quality level as Air Canada, Air France, American Airlines and other 3-Star airlines according to Skytrax which tracks airlines globally.
Besides, in those days of complex route regulations, "Cubana" was growing so fast that two US airlines, out of business today, did all what they could to prevent the approval of Cuban flights between Havana and Los Angeles.
Cubana de Aviacion also overflies US territory enroute to Canada, and many, many airlines, not just US, routinely overfly Cuba, for example Mexicana de Aviacion, TACA, KLM, Iberia, Air Canada and so forth.
wais.stanford.edu /Cuba/cuba_052904.htm   (2436 words)

  
 Travel & Tourism, Excellent Work of Cuban Flag Airline Highlighted: Cuba News, Cuba Travel, cultural, business news.
Cubana de Aviación, Cuba's flag airline, has a thick record of achievements since it was founded 75 years ago.
Havana.- Cubana de Aviación, Cuba's flag airline, has a thick record of achievements since it was founded 75 years ago.
Created on October 8, 1929, Cubana de Aviación is a founding member of the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), and joined the IATA in 1945.
www.cubaxp.com /modules/news/article-191.html   (437 words)

  
 Biological Warfare against Cuba
A fin de impedir acciones de este tipo, se encontraban en Estados Unidos los cinco cubanos condenados injustamente el pasado año en un proceso amañado y corrupto, silenciado a la opinión pública mundial y en el cual han sido violadas regulaciones constitucionales de ese gobierno.
El 21 de octubre de 1996, a las 12:08 horas, una aeronave de fumigación modelo S2R, con matrícula N-3093M del registro de Aeronaves Civiles de Estados Unidos operada por el Departamento de Estado de ese país, volaba sobre tierras cubanas, de norte a sur, rociando de manera intermitente -unas siete veces- sustancias desconocidas.
A finales de 1962 se produjo un primer ataque contra la avicultura cubana, con acelerado desarrollo en esos años, por medio de la enfermedad de Newcastle.
afrocubaweb.com /biowar.htm   (6019 words)

  
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Cubana Airlines works a bit different than US Airlines so put on your patience hat and be polite.
Cubana Airlines - Cubana de Aviacion - You can call in advance to make reservations with them at 242-326-8643.
Cubana Airlines - Cubana de Aviacion: You can call in advance to make reservations with them at 242-326-8643.
www.bootkeyharbor.com /CubaFlightInfo.htm   (1003 words)

  
 Cubana de Aviacion - CU - Havana 4 - Cuba - Mr Ramon Valdivia Acosta, President - ATI, Air Transport Intelligence - ATI ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Cuban flag-carrier Cubana is looking to acquire two Ilyushin Il-96-300 aircraft and is studying financial options for the plan.
It follows a preliminary agreement from Russian airframer VASO to assemble two Il-96s for Cubana...
Spanish carrier Air Europa has stepped up its co-operation with Cubana de Aviacion and will this summer implement a new wide-ranging codeshare.
www.rati.com /ALLANDING_561.htm   (331 words)

  
 Center for International Policy
Cubana flights federal law requires that the public be notified as well.
Cubana aircraft have experienced several serious accidents in the past 18
Cubana began in October 1929 as Compania Nacional Cubana de Aviación
www.ciponline.org /cuba/cubainthenews/newsarticles/mh120700rosenberg.htm   (427 words)

  
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More than 60 percent of the delegates will fly on Cubana de Aviacion Airlines, which has reduced its fares for delegates by 70 percent.
Cubana de Aviacion President Heriberto Prieto told the newspaper "Juventud Rebelde" that 25 percent of the company's seats will be reserved for delegates at the end of July into early August -- the height of the island's tourist season.
Other air companies providing their support to the youth festival with lower prices are Tame, Avianaca, Aeropostal, Lacsa and Taag, which will carry delegates from the southern region of Africa.
www.radiohc.org /Distributions/Radio_Havana_English/.1997/97_jun/rhc-eng-06.23.97   (832 words)

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